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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Windhover," lines 1-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is being referred to in line 10's "thee"?
(a) Christ.
(b) The speaker.
(c) The windhover.
(d) The air.

2. What device is evident in line 10's "the fire that breaks from thee then"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Verbal irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Apostrophe.

3. Which techniques are evident in the phrase "dapple-dawn-drawn" (line 2)?
(a) Metaphor and alliteration.
(b) Alliteration and internal rhyme.
(c) Internal rhyme and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.

4. What technique is employed in the line 9 phrase "oh, air, pride, plume, here"?
(a) Asyndeton.
(b) Atanaclasis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antithesis.

5. Who is the author of "The Windhover"?
(a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
(b) Christina Rossetti.
(c) Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(d) Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 10 and 11, the speaker says that the fire "that breaks from thee" is a billion times "lovelier" and more what?

2. What is the bird the "dauphin" of (line 2)?

3. In lines 2-3, "in his riding/ Of the rolling level underneath him steady air," which word tells what the bird is "riding"?

4. What would it mean to have "Rebuffed the big wind" (line 7)?

5. In lines 5 and 6, what is the bird's motion compared to?

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